"My Government sympathize with the-Yeeling of the Chinese Govern. ment that the auf schedules atese Government expressed their desire to reform 1
Judiciary system and brinse it into accord with that of western nations. The Powers: party to "have treaties agreed to xive every assistance to such reform and stated that they would be prepared ta relinquish their extra te torial rights when they wer satisfied that the state of the Chinese laws, the arrange ments for their administration and other considerations warranted them in 60 doing, "The Powers have since observer enrively each measure that. the Chi ete Government during the 22 sears which have passed have taken for the establishment of an. in= dependent judiciary and the enaetment of lus for the administration of justice, Need of Stable Government "The establishment of courts anit the enactment -of Jaws, however, do not in themselves meet all the requirements of the situate Courts cannot function or devel consistently without of a stable Government capable and willing to. maintain them and enforce their findings and decisions, regretted that the inability of the Chinese Government in the past few years fully to enforce their mandate and their authority has made it difficult for the courts and judiciary already established to function normally.
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